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Arkansas History and Culture at Your Fingertips, The Butler Center at Your Service: Top 20 Tips for using Encyclopedia of Arkansas for Student Research & Teacher Lesson Plans Start you

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Arkansas History and Culture at Your Fingertips,

The Butler Center at Your Service:

Top 20 Tips for using Encyclopedia of Arkansas for Student Research & Teacher Lesson Plans

Start your research with articles and media entries in the Butler Center’s online Encyclopedia of Arkansas:

1 The Butler Center homepage shows several major resources: http://www.butlercenter.org/

2 The best place to start looking is our Encyclopedia of Arkansas: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/

3 Two daily features on the EOA make good “bell-ringers” for any Social Studies class: “This Day in Arkansas

History” & “Photo of the Day”—and sometimes give you a surprise source related to your research topics!

4 For specific research or curriculum topics in the EOA, go to the ADVANCED SEARCH window in the top menu bar:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/advanced-search.aspx

5 When using the ADVANCED SEARCH, pay attention to the official names of places, groups, events, etc once you find a source Use those very same “keywords” for the next Advanced Search, and you’ll get more results!

6 As you read each entry, make notes about how the new information affects your initial thinking about the topic

Your reading notes can become the transition sentences into each new paragraph in your research paper

7 Notice, you will find primary as well as secondary sources for research projects on the EOA All “entry articles”

are secondary, but all “Media” items are primary! http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/

Use these links to cite the different sources you find:

8 The EOA also makes it easy for you to correctly cite the entry articles you use On the homepage in the lower

right margin, see “Helpful Tips”: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/helpful-tips/ and scroll down to “How

to Cite an Entry.”

9 Meanwhile, to cite a photograph you find on the EOA website, start with this link:

http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide and go on to these links for the MLA, APA, and Chicago styles:

http://content.easybib.com/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-cite-a-photo-digital-image-mla/

http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/photograph/

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

10 Helpful Tips also includes “Site Features” info on how to print the items for displays or to email large files to

your research partners: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/helpful-tips/

Use multiple ways to search the EOA for media sources (documents, photos, audio, video) for your topic:

11 To find media sources on the EOA, go to BROWSE MEDIA on the top menu bar on the homepage and search by

“Galleries, Category, Time Period, Type, Race & Ethnicity, or Gender”: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/.

12 Browsing by “Galleries” is valuable for multi-media products like webpages since it shows the EOA media items

by “Photo, Map, Document, Video, and Audio”: media.aspx?type=Gallery

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-13 Your research topic may fall under several broad headings so it’s always useful to browse each of the

related media “Categories”:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Category

14 Another way to put the events of your particular topic into larger historical context is to show other

events happening in the same window of time So also BROWSE MEDIA by “Time Period”:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Time+Period.

15 Under “Types” of media you can browse thumbnails of “Event, Group, Person, Place, or Thing” for your

particular topic: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Type

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Arkansas History and Culture at Your Fingertips, The Butler Center at Your Service:

Top 20 Tips for using Butler Center resources for Student Research and Teacher Lesson Plans

16 Diverse groups of people have been historical actors on the stage of Arkansas’s landscape but are not

always visible or fully accounted for in short versions of Arkansas and American history So BROWSE MEDIA by “Race & Ethnicity” to document their lived experience and cultural contributions, too:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Race+%26+Ethnicity

17 If you have limited time, you can still find several specific primary sources related to a narrow version of your

topic Use ADVANCED SEARCH, select for “Media”, and enter one of the “official” names you’ve found

Also search the special “Online Collections” on the Butler Center website for more material on your topic:

18 Now expand your search for media beyond the EOA to other special “Online Collections” on the Butler Center

website If your research topic is related to major wars, civil rights, or Arkansans who have served in Congress, check out http://www.butlercenter.org/online-collections/index.html

Finally, you can use these links to expand your research into the complete archives of the Butler Center

19 Or, if you’re ready to turn pro, search all of the digitized content on a website that combines the collections of

the Butler Center and the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture, called the Arkansas Studies Institute:

http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/

20 Take advantage of one more research tool created by your friendly archivists: their “open finding aid” tab that

appears in the upper right-hand corner lets you view the full inventory of the collection:

http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/findingaids

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Top 20 Tips for using Butler Center resources for Student Research & Lesson Plans

The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies is a unit of CALS, the Central Arkansas Library System It’s located next to the Main Campus of CALS and across the street from the River Market pavilion in downtown Little Rock in the Arkansas Studies Institute (the building with the modern architecture featuring historical photographs of Arkansas people and places.) It shares the building with UALR’s Center for Arkansas Culture and History Together the Butler Center and CAHC collections have more than 10 million documents and photographs on Arkansas history and culture available for public use

1. The Butler Center is especially committed to making these resources accessible to teachers and students around the state Its homepage shows several major programs and resources at the Butler Center: http://www.butlercenter.org/

2. For research projects and background reading related to lesson plans, the best place to start looking is our

Encyclopedia of Arkansas It adds new entries weekly: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/

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3. Two daily links on the EOA homepage make good “bellringers” for any Social Studies class: “This Day in Arkansas History” & “Photo of the Day”: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/ (and a calendar link shows entries for any day!)

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4. For specific research or curriculum topics, go to the ADVANCED SEARCH window in the top menu bar:

To find a topic, you can pull down the (long!) alphabetical list of Subject headings the EOA uses, as shown here:

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5 Or you can search with your own keywords For example, here’s the Search Results page for “Japanese American

internment camps”:

IMPORTANT!!: As you read each entry, make notes about how the new information affects your initial thinking about the topic Does this new info reinforce the idea of another source? Does it contradict it? Does it explain another cause—or consequence? Does it reveal a different point of view? Your reading notes can become the transition sentences into each new paragraph in your research paper—and they keep track of your developing thesis idea!

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6 And here’s another small but important tip with big returns during your research As you find new entries related to

your topic, pay careful attention to the official names of places, groups, events, etc Use those exact same “keywords” for the next Advanced Search!

You’ll definitely get more results! For example, look back at Tip #5 Notice the difference between searching for “Rohwer Relocation Center” (26 results using the official name) and searching for “Rohwer internment camp” (only 13 results using an unofficial name):

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7. Notice, you can find “primary” as well as “secondary” sources for research projects on the EOA The entry article counts as a legitimate secondary source, since all entries in the EOA are written by professionals in the field and are fact-checked before being published Also, the photographs, maps, or other historical documents (shown with links in the right margin) will qualify as primary sources For example, here’s the page for “Rowher Relocation Center”:

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8. The EOA also makes it easy for you to correctly cite the articles you use On the homepage in the lower right margin, click on “Helpful Tips”: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/helpful-tips/

On the “Helpful Tips” page, scroll down to “How to Cite an Entry” and choose the style your teacher assigned for this project You’ll see an example using the three different styles for the same EOA article:

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9. Meanwhile, to cite a photograph you find on the EOA website, start with this link (guide ) and go on to sites for MLA, APA and Chicago Manual styles…

(continued next page)

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(9.) To cite a photograph in APA style, see:

(9.) To cite a photograph in Chicago style, see:

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10. Notice that the Helpful Tips also includes “Site Features” info on how to print the items for displays or to email large files to your research partners: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/helpful-tips/ , which will be useful when you share research with partners or get ready to print materials for a display

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11. Speaking of media, the Butler Center has the largest online collection of photos, videos and oral history in the state

(Teachers, these make good attention-getters before reading and discussion.) To find media on the EOA, go to BROWSE

MEDIA on the top menu bar and search by: Galleries, Category, Time Period, Type, Race & Ethnicity, or Gender:

12. “Galleries” is valuable for multi-media products like webpages since it shows the EOA media items by: Photo, Map,

Document, Video, and Audio: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Gallery

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13 Your research topic may fall under several broad headings so it’s always useful to check each of the related

“Categories”: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Category

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14 Another way to put the events of your particular topic into larger historical context is to show other events

happening in the same window of time So BROWSE MEDIA by “Time Period”, as well:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Time+Period

(Note: The EOA time periods correlate to the eras in the state’s ADE Social Studies course frameworks and include: )

Pre-European Exploration (Prehistory - 1540); European Exploration and Settlement (1541 - 1802); Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood (1803 - 1860); Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874); Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900); Early Twentieth Century (1901 - 1940); World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967);

Modern Era (1968 - the Present)

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15 Under “Types” of media you can browse thumbnails of “Event, Group, Person, Place, or Thing” for your particular

topic: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/browse-media.aspx?type=Type

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16. Multiple and diverse groups of people have been historical actors on the stage of Arkansas’s landscape but are not always visible or fully accounted for in short versions of Arkansas and American history So BROWSE MEDIA by “Race & Ethnicity” for items documenting their lived experience and cultural contributions related

to your research topic and questions:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/media-category-all.aspx?type=Category&item=Ethnic+Groups

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17. If you BROWSE MEDIA in each of these ways, you will uncover much more source material related to your topic and

in ways you can’t initially imagine However, if you have limited time, you can still find several specific primary sources

related to a narrow version of your topic Use the ADVANCED SEARCH tool, select for “Media”, and enter one of the

“official” names (of the Event, Group, Person, Place, or Thing related to your topic) that you’ve already found:

For example, who would think anything in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas history relates to the “Beatles”, but do the

ADVANCED SEARCH, limited to “Media” …

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(17.) … and you hit the jackpot, meaning you now have in your research hand of cards at least three-of-a-kind primary

sources related to your topic You can’t yet prove your thesis, but at least you have the starting evidence for an

argument to support it!

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(17.) …and imagine all the people… who will be stopping and looking at your Arkansas National History Day exhibit!

…

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18. Now you can expand your search for media beyond the EOA—and view other special “Online Collections” on the Butler Center website If your research topic is related to major wars, civil rights, or Arkansans who have served in Congress, check out http://www.butlercenter.org/online-collections/index.html

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